Shut Up Iris

Read the article here. When you're done reading that, come back here and I'll tell you why I call 'bullshit' on that. Back yet, okay, here we go.



As you can see from my picture above I like guns, an armed society is a polite society. No, I don't know why the picture is so bright, that was the first time I'd ever used my camera phone and apparently somebody was testing a nuclear bomb in my kitchen, maybe the North Koreans. Bad photography aside, that article is both spurious and fucking bull-diarrhea-shit. Now, that article makes it seem that Hawaii has some of the strictest gun laws in the United States, note where it says with it's 'strong gun laws' immediately implying that other states gun laws are 'weak'.

Now look at Hawaii's gun laws, and Illinois gun laws. Holy what is the Astroglide for Batman!? Illinois' gun laws are quite a bit more strict, so logically, Illinois must have lower gun ownership rates and lower gun deaths. No and no, see for yourself.



Illinois ranks right in the middle, how is that possible? Even stupider, Washington DC which had the nations strictest gun laws (the TOTAL handgun ban was thrown out by the courts) has the HIGHEST RATE OF GUN DEATHS.

So, what is the deal? I have several ideas. First off both Illinois and DC have much denser populations and much higher rates of drug related crime. If you sell drugs, you have guns to protect your business. Hawaii is partially insulated by it's distance from, well , everywhere. Hawaii is a place where tons of tourists go to relax and where hunting is marginal at best I would imagine on the small island which are made up mostly of parks and wild life preserves. So that's two reasons, less handguns because not as much smack to protect, less rifles because of less hunting. Now take a look at this Hawaii had nearly the exact same rate of murders as other states it's size.

Less gun deaths because of fewer guns, but the same amount of murders, so even if there were zero guns on Hawaii, I doubt that would equal zero murders.

So long story short: People have been murdering each other since Darwin invented people and long before any guns ever even existed and even with an absence of guns, people will still try and find a way to kill each other. A gun is a tool. People are killed with screw drivers, ice picks, frying pans, cars................why isn't anyone trying to outlaw them?



It's all very fishy to me, banning guns only makes sure that the people that use them to protect themselves will be killed by criminals that illegally have guns.